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(11) EP 0 481 498 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
09.06.1993 Bulletin 1993/23

(43) Date of publication A2:
22.04.1992 Bulletin 1992/17

(21) Application number: 91117766.5

(22) Date of filing: 17.10.1991
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)5: G11B 9/08, G11B 9/00
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE CH DE DK ES FR GB GR IT LI LU NL SE

(30) Priority: 19.10.1990 JP 280696/90

(71) Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Tokyo (JP)

(72) Inventors:
  • Haruki, Kawada, c/o Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Ohta-ku, Tokyo (JP)
  • Toshihiko, Miyazaki, c/o Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Ohta-ku, Tokyo (JP)
  • Hideyuki, Kawagishi, c/o Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Ohta-ku, Tokyo (JP)
  • Akihiko, Yamano, c/o Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Ohta-ku, Tokyo (JP)

(74) Representative: Weser, Wolfgang 
Dres. Weser & Martin, Patentanwälte, Radeckestrasse 43
D-81245 München
D-81245 München (DE)


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    (54) Information recording unit and apparatus and method for information recording/reproduction


    (57) A method and apparatus for recording information on an information recording medium and/or reproducing information from the recording medium. Probes for recording and/or reproducing information and a support for supporting the probes are arranged so that the probes are positioned to face the information recording medium. The support and the information recording medium are relatively moved by sliding on sliding surfaces thereof. The distance between the support and the recording medium is roughly set by projections formed between the support and the recording medium, and is finely adjusted during operation by a mechanism for moving the probes.






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